Intel is touting a PCIe card packed with SGX tech to plug into servers in time for next week's RSA conference in San Francisco.
Chipzilla's chunky add-on is aimed at cloud and data-center machines missing SGX (Software Guard Extensions) so that applications running on the boxes can use the technology. SGX allows program to run …

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Can someone explain the point of SGX? I’m sure there is probably some cloudy explanation for it, but from where I’m sitting, the only people looking to run code in ways invisible to the rest of system are malware authors. Maybe DRM too, but as far as I’m concerned that pretty much falls under the definition of malware, as code that is serving no conceivable benefit to the user who is (normally unwittingly) running it.

Purposes of SGX

On client machines, DRM and cryptography. For servers, allowing you to upload code to run in an enclave in the cloud using remote attestation to prove the software hasn't been meddled with in transit or prior to execution.